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Mischievous 1

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Harmony

The choice of notes is equally important here. The harmony plays the major role because the melody here is based on the specific harmony. In this style, a common chord progression consists of a minor chord going to its dominant 5th and back to the minor chord. We have done just that in the first 3 beats of the piece:

We have an abbreviated G minor chord going to a D7 chord (minus the D, and back to the G minor chord. The fourth beat is where we throw in a little mischief. Here we move to the C# minor chord, which is a tritone apart from our G minor chord:  

In bar 3, beat 3, we go to an equally surprising chord when we play the Bb minor chord, which is a minor 3rd above the G minor chord: